Quite frankly, any DC politician who invokes the name of someone like Johnny Cash, John Mellencamp, or Bruce Springsteen has summoned up imagery he has no hope of living up to. There isn't a politician there these days who seems likely to manage it.

I'm not much of a fan of Johnny Cash, yet I know about this song. That should tell you just how silly Boehner's reference to the man actually was.

Take this as another example of how divorced our leaders are from the world the rest of us live in, and how little respect they have for us.